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Subject: Coating of copper traces

From: "jriggen55" <jriggen55@...>
Date: 2006-02-16

How do you coat the copper traces to keep down the oxidation and
improve solderability?

I haven't made a PC board in 25 years, but back then, we put the PCB in
a solder bath with a peanut oil top layer to keep down the dross. This
was time consuming and costly (solder was expensive in that quantity).

How is it done today? I saw some mention of 'tin-it' in one of the
threads here but cannot find it on the web.

This is a great group and it's quite interesting comparing how home-
brew PCB's are done today and how we did it 25 years ago. Isn't
technology great?!!

Thanks in advance,

Jim